The senator representing Taraba South Senatorial District at the National Assembly, David Jimkuta, has said 19 senators were denied landing permit at the Kashimbilla airport in Taraba.
The All Progressives Congress senator made the complaint at his Senatorial Empowerment Programme in Wukari, Taraba, where he donated assorted items to the constituents on Tuesday.
He explained that the 19 senators were selected by the Senate to accompany him and to witness his empowerment programme.
The senator lamented that he got the report that the Kashimbila airport was temporary shut down, after he had completed every procedure required to fly into the airport.
Jimkuta, who is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Area Councils, said that the visit would have allowed the senators know the needs of the state to be of support.
He lamented that the development prevented the senators from gracing the occasion, thus depriving the constituents of the numerous financial and material empowerment that would have come their way from the visiting lawmakers and the senate itself.
Jimkuta also promised to support the security apparatchik of the community with logistics to enhance security of lives and properties in the district.
He advised the beneficiaries of the empowerment programme not to sell their items but use them to better their lots.
Earlier, Chief David Kente, Chairman of the event, thanked the senator for the massive distribution of items to his constituents.
Kente, a philanthropist and also a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), described the empowerment as unprecedented in the history of the district.
According to NAN, items distributed include cars, motorcycles, tricycles, sewing machines, deep freezers, vulcanizing machines among others.
